Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-13 Thread Julian Taylor
On 13.03.2013 21:45, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Control: severity -1 important > > Le samedi 09 mars 2013 à 22:03 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit : > >> I think we should first decide whether this issue is RC (because of >> Wheezy to be released soon), and this is indeed not obvious. It is of

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-13 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Control: severity -1 important Le samedi 09 mars 2013 à 22:03 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit : > I think we should first decide whether this issue is RC (because of > Wheezy to be released soon), and this is indeed not obvious. It is of > course expected that packages in "main" install fine in

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Control: tags -1 - patch Le samedi 09 mars 2013 à 18:26 +0100, Michael Hanke a écrit : > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Sébastien Villemot > wrote: > The attached patch allows the package to install nicely even > if MATLAB > is not present. Otherwise people who install t

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Michael Hanke
Am 09.03.2013 19:10 schrieb "Adam D. Barratt" : > > On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 18:45 +0100, Julian Taylor wrote: > > A problem with failing the installation if matlab is missing is that it > > prevents migration from Ubuntus proposed repository to the main one. > > Migration requires that it installs an

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Julian Taylor
On 09.03.2013 19:10, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 18:45 +0100, Julian Taylor wrote: >> A problem with failing the installation if matlab is missing is that it >> prevents migration from Ubuntus proposed repository to the main one. >> Migration requires that it installs and does al

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 18:45 +0100, Julian Taylor wrote: > A problem with failing the installation if matlab is missing is that it > prevents migration from Ubuntus proposed repository to the main one. > Migration requires that it installs and does also not make other > packages uninstallable. > E.g

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Julian Taylor
On 09.03.2013 18:26, Michael Hanke wrote: > Hi, > > I see the problem, but I am not convinced this change is the solution. > Installing this package is pointless without Matlab, it should not be > pulled in as a dependency unless > a package gets installed that requires matlab. > > If we make thi

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > The attached patch allows the package to install nicely even if MATLAB > is not present. Otherwise people who install the package by accident end > up with a dpkg error. > > Julian: please confirm that it fixes the issue for you. >

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Yes it would be great to have bugs fixed in Debian too, especially if they get reported on Debian systems... as for this particular one I consider it a feature :-) Keep us updated on what you figure out -- Sent from a phone which beats iPhone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Julian Taylor
On 09.03.2013 15:19, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > But should it exit nicely if no matlab is present??? > Absent matlab == matlab cannot be supported == error in my vision of > how things should be handled in this package. Having it installed > without error should provide some guarantee that Matl

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013, Julian Taylor wrote: > also it has dozens of upgrade and installation failures in ubuntu, > probably not relevant for Debian, but it sheds a bad light on the > quality of the package. in Ubuntu... Meanwhile, this package in Debian has only following bugs: Status

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
But should it exit nicely if no matlab is present??? Absent matlab == matlab cannot be supported == error in my vision of how things should be handled in this package. Having it installed without error should provide some guarantee that Matlab is present so that dependent packages could rely on

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Control: tags -1 + patch Le samedi 09 mars 2013 à 14:18 +0100, Julian Taylor a écrit : > Package: matlab-support > Version: 0.0.18 > Severity: serious > > in a clean testing chroot: > > Setting up matlab-support (0.0.18) ... > No matlab found and maybe running in non-interactive mode. No way out

Bug#702637: matlab-support: fails to install in clean chroot

2013-03-09 Thread Julian Taylor
Package: matlab-support Version: 0.0.18 Severity: serious in a clean testing chroot: Setting up matlab-support (0.0.18) ... No matlab found and maybe running in non-interactive mode. No way out -- failing... dpkg: error processing matlab-support (--configure): subprocess installed post-installat